Billy O’Callaghan – Life Sentences (retail) (epub)
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Name: Billy O’Callaghan – Life Sentences (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 2.41 MB
Book:
Title: Life Sentences
Author: Billy O’Callaghan
Language: English
Year: 2015
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
ISBN: 9788310128232
Total pages: 320 str.
Description:
"O’Callaghan writes with a bright, enlivening emotional palette and a penetrating eye for the details of family history. A deeply felt and distinctive work by a real craftsman."-Kirkus (starred review)
One Irish family’s fight for survival makes for an unforgettable tale of love, abandonment, hunger, and redemption.
At just sixteen, Nancy Martin leaves the small island of Cape Clear for the mainland, the only member of her family to survive the effects of the Great Famine. Finding work in a grand house on the edge of Cork City, she is irrepressibly drawn to the charismatic gardener Michael Egan, sparking a love affair and a devastating chain of events that continues to unfold over three generations.
Spanning more than a century, Billy O’Callaghan’s weaves together the journey of an Irish family determined against all odds to be free. In 1920, Nancy’s son Jer has lived through battles of his own as a soldier in the Great War. Now drunk in a jail…
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